Re: Preventing ”secret” files from popping up

[Colin Law]

On 28 October 2012 09:25, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> Let's say that I'm the only one who use my computer, and my file
> collection is a mix of things. Some of the files are ”secret” in some
> kind of way, could be any reason, of course. Maybe some kind of files
> for work, maybe just too private files, whatever.
>
> So I hit the magic key combination (in my case Super+space, I think
> default is Super only) to search for files. Before I enter anything, a
> couple of my last viewed files appear. Some of them may be files that
> I don't want someone who's looking at the screen should see.
>
> Can I prevent certain files from appearing there, at least as long as
> I am not searching for them specifically? Or can I prevent files
> inside a certain folder to appear?
> Or do I just need to create a separate user for those files?

If you go to System Settings > Privacy and go to the Files tab you can
add folders that activity is not to be recorded for.  I /think/ that
will do it.  Also all files of particular types can be disregarded
there.

Colin

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> Johnny Rosenberg
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